Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, announced news of the accident on Tuesday morning on the Senate floor. “My heart goes out to the families of those who lost their lives,” he said. “And my sympathies are with their fellow Marines, who are also grieving this loss.”

But the Times skipped Reid blaming the Marines' death on the sequester. ABC News (online) captured Reid's remarks.

“One of the things in sequester is we cut back in training and maintenance. That’s the way sequester was written,” the Nevada senator said. “It’s just not appropriate, Mr. President, that our military can’t train and do the maintenance necessary. These men and women were Marines who were training there in Hawthorne, and with the sequester, it’s going to cut this stuff back.”

The Marines weren't pleased. On Tuesday night, Col. Chris Hughes, deputy director of U.S. Marine Corps Public Affairs, released a statement: “The comments are unsubstantiated and certainly do not reflect the Marine Corps’ position on this matter.”